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Using Gen AI to write Kids Books

I have been exploring the variety of options that are available with Gen AI. Not just the different AI tools but the differ things they can be used for. In my day job they can be great for rewriting bits of code or looking up how to do specific tasks in python but the data I work with means I could never ask for anything specific. I am still looking for an interesting home coding project to do but in the meantime I have gotten creative. 

Working with my daughter I have started to create some books for kids. Probably best aimed at around the 6-10 year old mark, they are just fun books with a bit of a laugh in them. The great thing is that it is fairly easy to make the bulk of these books using GenAI which I have also used for cover art and for a bunch of logos and banners for a websites. 

The Website is here and the first book is here (only £0.99 from Amazon). 

The writing process:

Prompt 1: I have idea xyz for a children's book aimed at 6-8 year olds, here is an guide blah blah please write some sections for the book. Note that that might take a few attempts to get the full list of sections and sometimes the sections will need breaking down into chapters. 

Prompt 2: Get the sections / breakdown from the first prompts and plug them into the tools asking for it to write the section. Plug them together. 

Proof Read: The next step is manual but read through the story and check it flows and makes sense. 

Pictures: I used Ideogram to generate my images as it does a better job with text than CoPilot using DALL-E. 



Convert to ePub: Download as a DOCX and then import into calibre (which is free) and then you can convert it to ePub. There is then a tool to check how things will convert in Kindle. You may have to play around with the contents page to get it to put chapters in correctly. But that probably requires a whole post on its own. 

Overall it is really simple to make a kids picture book using Gen AI and put it on Kindle. I reckon if I put an hours worth of time into it everyday I could easily generate a book a week and once I have a more streamlined process maybe 2. 

So far my daughter has loved both the books I have made and has actually read them both from start to finish. Imagine doing that over 10 years and having circa 1000 books illustrated kids books on Amazon. I mean realistically they aren't going to sell in their thousands but, if you were to make on average 50p profit per sale, and sell 2 of each book a week that is still £1000 a week! 

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